Image 068, second book, folio 35b, receipts 232 (contd) to 239.
| The seconde booke | ||||
| is of: take ye same linnen cloth, & wet it in ye same warme water, & wash | ||||
| the sore softlye to clense it, & dry it agayne, & if there be in the wounde | ||||
| any hollowe place, take linte*, & wet it in the warme water, & lay it in ye | ||||
| hollowe place, & lay a plaster over all, & then it shalle heale all together. | ||||
| this medicine hath done greate cures. | ||||
| 233. To drawe & heale the pricke of a nayle or thorne. | ||||
| Take 2 handfull of sellendine*, as much orpine*, shred it small, & boyle it with | ||||
| oyle olyffe*, & unwroughte** waxe, streyne it, & use it. | ||||
| 234. A medicine for a burning ague*. | ||||
| Take a pottle* of water, & halfe a pinte of vineger, then take of endiffe*, suc- | ||||
| corye*, violet leaves, five leaved grasse*, & strawberry leaves, of each a like | ||||
| quantitye, & seeth* them to a quarte**, & put thereunto di j lb of sugar, & drinke | ||||
| thereof eveninge & morninge. | ||||
| 235. A remedy to heale ye pestilence*, & to |
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| drawe out the venyme. | ||||
| Take a quicke* hen, & draw ye feathers from her arse, even from the place | ||||
| that shee layeth her egs, & let her bare place sit upon her griefe*, boche* or | ||||
| sore, & holde her so a good while, then shall you see that the hen will have drawne | ||||
| out all, or a good parte of the poyson, & that shortlye after she will dye. It | ||||
| shall be good to doe this with 2 or 3 or more hens one after another, for they | ||||
| will draw all the venyme out of the sore, this done, anoynte the place with | ||||
| good treacle*, & doe not in the meane time use any other medicine by ye mouth, | ||||
| as ivy berries, bay berries, or any other medicine by mouthe. | ||||
| 236. A plaster to ripe a botch comeing | ||||
| of the pestilence. | ||||
| Take mallowes*[*], the roots of hollihockes, & onyons of each like much, washe | ||||
| them & seeth them in water, & after bray* them in a mortar, with the pouder | ||||
| of lynseede, & fenicreke*, & a good quantity of swines greace, & lay on the | ||||
| plaster everye day. | ||||
| 237. For the same. | ||||
| Take an onyon, cut out ye core, & fill it full of treacle of Jeane*, & rost** it in ye | ||||
| embers, & then take 3 spoonefull of red vineger, & 6 spoonefull of the iuice* | ||||
| of sorrell, & strayne the onyon, & ye iuice together, & so drinke it warme. | ||||
| 238. For the same. | ||||
| Take one greate onyon, & open the top, & make it hollowe, & fyll it full | ||||
| of pepper, & roste it very well, & grinde it in a mortar, & put thereunto | ||||
| halfe a pinte of vineger, & halfe a pynte of the iuice of marygold leaves, | ||||
| & strayne them all together, & give the patiente to drinke three or fowre | ||||
| spoonefull warme. | ||||
| 239. For the chyne coughe*. | ||||
| Take chineworte*, |
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Transcribed by KW and YR